Utilitarian Confucianism Ch'En Liang's Challenge to Chu Hsi

I believe the material should be utilized as supplemental data for exploring Ch'en Liang's intellectual development.Ch'en's thought evolved through a tao-hsueh phase to the utilitarian positions for which he is famous. This 'radicalization' represented an evolutionary process. To understand this process, the debate with Chu Hsi, and the significance of both in China's political culture, it is first necessary to take notice of the cultural setting-traditional Confucian polarities and their configurations in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.Tillman, Hoyt C. is the author of 'Utilitarian Confucianism Ch'En Liang's Challenge to Chu Hsi', published 1982 under ISBN 9780674931763 and ISBN 0674931769.